ESSEN
4 Pathfinder Mosquitoes and 72 Lancasters of 1 and 5 Groups. 1 Lancaster lost.
Essen's records have no report for this night but it is not known whether bombs did not fall in the city or whether the local officials did not retain the report.
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ESSEN
4 Pathfinder Mosquitoes and 55 Lancasters of 1 and 5 Groups. 1 Lancaster lost.
The Oboe equipment of the first Mosquito to arrive failed and the other 3 Mosquitoes were all late. Because of this, many of the Lancasters bombed on dead reckoning. Some bombs did fall in Essen, where 20 houses were destroyed or seriously damaged and 9 people were killed, but other bombs fell in Neviges, Remscheid, Solingen and Wuppertal, a group of towns 12-20 miles south of Essen. 19 people were killed in Remscheid.
Minor Operations: 32 aircraft minelaying off Biscay ports, 5 O.T.U. sorties. No losses.
